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Between 1922 and 1923, Katherine Mansfield wrote four volumes of short stories. This recording includes all sixty-three stories from the four collections, including a number of incomplete stories collated after Mansfield’s death.

When Springville residents—at least the ones still alive—are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington.

Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions. Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity. But few people understand just how or why they happen and, more important, the immeasurable consequences that often haunt the lucky few who are acquitted years after they are proven innocent.

In a German Pension (1911) was Katherine Mansfield’s first published collection of short stories. Many of these works had been previously published in the British weekly magazine, The New Age, which also featured work by figures including G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, and George Bernard Shaw. The word “pension" in the title refers to a European guest-house.

This collection of short stories, by celebrated New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, was first published in 1920. Many of Mansfield’s short stories explore New Zealand landscapes and identity, and her work has been a shaping force in the short story genre.

The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories is a collection of both finished and unfinished short stories written by Katherine Mansfield. The collection was published posthumously, not long after Mansfield’s death in 1923, by her husband, John Middleton Murry.

Emlyn is still trapped in her fairy-tale world as the Queen, but Camilla is still at large, appearing in Emlyn's dreams. Now she must once again face her while saving many from being murdered, but also, she must find out what's holding her down in this world. What is her destiny? 

When an author falls into her own book after being recently heart-broken, her world truly begins to change. Emlyn Lovet must now live out her own story - she's headed straight for the castle, and they want to make her their queen.

The threads of fate bound them together. Marina Winston, a seamstress in Hollywood's Golden Age gets mixed up with the mobster-world when a priceless necklace is stolen. Determined to find it Angelo DeCici, known in the underworld as The Angel of Death, comes looking for it. Only one man can protect her, Agent Myles Flynn. Years earlier his family was ruthlessly murdered, and bringing down the nefarious gangster is personal. Finding love with the seamstress wasn't part of the plan, but Myles finds himself willing to take a bullet to save her.

As an illegitimate daughter of a French noble, Evangeline Avenes is sent to live at a secretive estate in the Blue Moutains of Jamaica. On route with her mother, and another child passenger, Alessio Draven, their ship is attacked by pirates. When pirate lord, Captain Pyke, shoots and kills her mother, Evangeline's life is forever altered. 

Years of abuse created the perfect assassin. Kidnapped as a baby, Talia is raised for one purpose: To protect her outlaw family. A master of blades, when a family member is killed, she is sent to deliver vengeance. Dispatched to settle the score with Donovan Morgan, she find herself inexplicable drawn to him. Instead of ending his life, she boldly kisses him. When the family turns on her, fate delivers her into Donovan Morgan's embrace.

Ben, Eileen, Alexander, and Richard are four of close to nine million people that were trapped within the Blue Hole Radius, in Southern California, and emerged into a world that is 1,410 years into their future. For every second that passed by inside of that radius, 23 and a half years passed by outside of the Radius. This resulted in the advent of the Blue Hole Radius, stalling time for those trapped inside for 1,410 years.

The Garden Party and Other Stories was published in 1922. A collection of fifteen short stories, it explores themes including life and death, gender and family roles, relationships and duty.

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the original people of this land, yet it is also one of the poorest communities in America. Through intimate and vulnerable memoir, Lakota twin sisters Sarah Eagle Heart and Emma Eagle Heart-White recount growing up on the reservation and overcoming enormous odds, first as teenage girls in a majority-white high school, and then battling bias in their professional careers. Woven throughout are self-help strategies centering women of color, that combine marginalized histories, psychological research on trauma, and perspectives on decolonial therapy.